Upcoming Exhibitions

Featured works include London-based artist Robin Baumgarten’s ingenious, internationally-exhibited Line Wobbler, an abstract dungeon crawler game played with a spring controller and a 15-foot-long LED strip. Also on display is art collective Kokoromi’s Superhypercube, a beautiful virtual reality puzzler recently released for the PSVR system, as well as Mason Lindroth’s strange and surreal game Hylics. […]

Telfair features selections from Alt-AI, an exhibition that explores artificial intelligence and machine learning through art. Presented works at Telfair include Gene Kogan’s Cubist Mirror, which transforms the viewer’s image into the style of a cubist painting, as well as Melanie Hoff and Druv Mehrotra’s Doppelcam, an app that matches your photograph with an image […]

Featuring Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s unnerving portrait sculptures based on DNA information extracted from materials that people leave behind (e.g. chewing gum or hair). Plus, Courtney Brown and Sharif Razzaque’s RAWR! A Study in Sonic Skulls builds upon scans of a hadrosaur to create a sculpture that allows participants to recreate the sounds of an extinct creature.

One of Telfair’s longest running community programs, 22 years strong, I Have Marks to Make showcases the therapeutic power of artmaking. The exhibition features artwork by individuals of all ages with disabilities or in rehabilitation from injury or illness. More than half of the works in the exhibition are created in Telfair’s outreach sessions to health and wellness organizations throughout the community. Participating […]

Nick Cave (American, b. 1959) is an internationally-renowned artist living and working in Chicago. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body. Cave’s first Soundsuit was created in 1992 in response to the Rodney King beating by the LAPD in 1991. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and […]

Wundercamera: Savannah is a site-specific exhibition bringing together works of art produced by contemporary photographers exploring the world of museums—including museums of natural history, historic houses, and fine and decorative arts institutions. The works in Wundercamera: Savannah focus on different aspects of the museum and gallery culture as subject matter, all interpreted through the lenses […]

KCHUNG Radio is taking over the Telfair Museums’ airwaves this Spring! KCHUNG is a cooperative broadcast platform based in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Placing a premium on ease of participation from as wide a community as possible, KCHUNG views broadcasting as an ideal form for gathering and amplifying a multitude of diverse voices and viewpoints. KCHUNG […]

Neal Slavin (American, b. 1941) is a celebrated photographer, well known for his keen portraits of various groups of people in the United States and abroad. Slavin finds the group setting a rich subject matter for exploration. He states, “My work is about that communal thing that happens between people when they get together and […]

William Wegman (American, b. 1943) is an internationally-renowned artist with a prolific career spanning more than five decades. William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to make videos, take photographs and to make drawings and paintings that he has maintained since the early 1970s. William Wegman became a household name for […]

Generation is an exhibition that brings together two generations of Iraqi-Canadian women artists—mother Sawsan AlSaraf and her daughters Tamara and Sundus Abdul Hadi—offering a dialogue between their artworks as to how three members of the same family respond artistically to complex themes of representation, identity, and displacement in a contemporary global world. Each artist works […]